Hi Anthere,
Please do consider that it is probably not worth
telling us anything under at least a week notice. Not
enough time to understand, then to translate
Um, how much work is it to translate two text strings? That it may be
hard to understand in some cases is true, we probably need a demo wiki
to better demonstrate functionality (there's one at
piclab.com/wiki, but
I don't have access to its code).
I am officially asking that the international
wikipedia list be discarded.
I'm not the right person to talk to here, but I tend to agree. The
wikipedia-l list *is* crowded, though, so perhaps we need a different
kind of separation.
However, also realise that just doing so will prevent
international wikipedias to have any real involvement
in general policy matters. Today, in 5 hours, my mail
box received 85 messages. I do not feel fluent in
english enough to read all of them.
Your English is more than good enough to be no excuse ;-). Traffic can
get a bit demanding, I agree.
Notice that the
above policy is not used by anyone
else either, >so I don't even see why
you bring it
up.
So, if I follow you, not having other people follow
policies is enough reason for you not to follow them
enough ? If so, why are these policies still there ?
They are not. Giskart is, to my knowledge, the first person to bring
this up.
However, to tell the truth, I won't be able to
translate your feature for the very good reason that
though I tried to concentrate very hard on it, I have
not being able to understand what that checkbox in the
watch list was all about. I just couldnot figure what
you were talking about.
OK, here's how it will look. You edit an article:
'''Biology''' is the study of [[life]] and its processes. The
term_
biology was coined in the late [[1700s]] by the French naturalist__
Pierre-Antoine de Monet, Jean-Baptiste de [[Lamarck]]. ____________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
Summary: __________ [ ] This is a minor edit [ ] Watch this article
[Save page] [Show preview]
Note that the above will probably look awful if your e-mail client
displays mail in a proportional font (that is, variable width letters).
The "Watch this article" box, when checked, means that the article will
be added to your watchlist (an existing feature, but previously only
accessible using the "Watch this article" link).
Furthermore, if the user preference "Watch new and modified articles" is
activated, this checkbox will be active by default whenever you edit an
article. You can still deactivate it, though.
Any clearer?
Also, I have read your proposition (that if I
understood well you decided to implement today if
nobody complained about it...maybe some answers are in
the 85 messages...) about the counting of articles.
That's a misunderstanding, I'll change the navigation bar of the English
Wikipedia only as agreed upon on wikipedia-l. The article count is on my
to do list, but if anyone else wants to implement this, be my guest. If
implemented, it will likely be done in such a way that it will still be
possible to use the previous count.
Regards,
Erik
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